I know RJ already ranted a bit about this with his last post, but I was planning to bitch about this, so I don’t care. We all know that the DC Universe is going to be relaunched this September, following the conclusion of the yawn-tastic crossover event Flashpoint.

Everything is going to be relaunched with new number 1′s, and our favorite heroes will have their origins and histories changed. The extent of the changes are unknown – we don’t know which previous stories will be invalidated. Aside from the continuity changes, our heroes are also sporting new costumes with designs spearheaded by none other than Jim Lee.

Similar to the narrative shakeup DC made in 1985, Crisis on Infinite Earths, this move is supposed to free DC from the shackles of continuity and give them a fresh slate for better storytelling. The original Crisis’ aftermath was pretty good. It gave us a fresh take on superheroes, like Byrne’s amazing version of Superman and Frank Miller’s timeless Batman: Year One. It was really worth angering all those fans, because EVERYTHING TURNED OUT BETTER THAN EXPECTED. (continue reading…)

Hey Comicgasm readers, I’ve got a bit of a confession to make: I kinda lost interest in comics, except for a few titles like Amazing Spider-Man, Justice League: Generation Lost, and the Bat-verse after Blackest Night. Now, BN was by no means a bad crossover, but it failed to live up to the hype it built for itself. And DC seems to have fallen into a weird cycle of rebooting the universe on a frequent basis since Infinite Crisis. Sure, they’re not reboots per se, but we get to see huge retcons, up to the point where huge parts of a character’s history were changed on regularly (see: Superman, Flash, Batman). You’d think after Final Crisis (which was awesome and I will fight you if you say otherwise) they’re going to stop it already.

Guess what? They’ve done it again.

According to USA Today, the entire DC line will be relaunched after Flashpoint, and everything – I mean EVERYTHING – will be renumbered to #1. I actually don’t have a problem with that, because resetting comics to #1 has become standard industry practice at this point. I’m kind of weirded out at the fact that it looks like DC is going to hit the reset button and completely clean the slate. (continue reading…)

Hello folks! Here we have guest writer Janina Joves, a nerd from Australia that plays World of Warcraft with Greg Rucka. She recently attended the Australian premiere of Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods that showed at Melbourne on the 28th.  I somehow managed to convince her to share her experience watching the Sexy Bald Scotsman. Here we go.

Scene 1

A shadowed silhouette of a man, standing against a dark wall. His ghosts weigh on the back of his suit jacket, but he does not let it show. A glint of light frames the sunglasses resting on his Scottish nose.

It seems as if he is waiting for something, yet as the dull roar of noise slows down to something more comprehensible, a voice starts filtering through, heralding his fame, his achievements, his status.

The Rock Star of Comics.

MR. GRANT MORRISON.

Scene 2

The scene pans to a ComiCon panel, and GRANT is walking, not confidently, but not meekly either. He walks as he is muddling through the surprise of it all, and is slowly accepting that this is reality for him. The reality where he made magic happen.

In front of him is his legion of fans, all cheering at his arrival on stage.

The scene is still set in greyscale, all black, white, and grey.

Scene 3

We are behind GRANT, looking into the crowd. In attempts to thank everyone for everything, GRANT lets out a gem of a statement in his distinct Scottish brogue:  “I’ll try to show my thanks in form of interpretive dance.”

Scene 4

We see him dancing awkwardly, but his demeanour shows no self-consciousness.

A TOTAL FREE SPIRIT.

IN A SUIT.

NonCanonical, a Melbourne based weekly comics podcast, presents Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods – a documentary of how the being named Grant Morrison, the described Rock Star of Comics, came to be. It delves through his backstory, sifting through the truths and obscured myth, attempting to separate fact from fiction. Friends of Grants shedding light with their own personal experiences, supplementing Grant’s own monologue.

The film runs as if going through a biography of a rock star – overladen and overlain with imagery – images within images – which seems to enhance the aura of mystery that just envelopes Grant Morrison’s head like a cloud covered mountain top.  (continue reading…)

We here at comicgasm believe that diversity is important! So now, we are proud to announce that Comicgasm now has 20% more weeaboo and hipster! Please help me welcome our two new writers!

Meet Shinji. I really don’t know anything about this guy except that he lent me his awesome V for Vendetta mask. Also, he sings for Ade’s band. What’s that, Ade? He writes for http://pelikula.tumblr.com? Wait, we have a guy who actually knows how to write on the staff now? Oh snap! Oh, and I’ve been told that he’s gonna bring the ~*~INDIE~*~ to comicgasm.

Meet Iñigo. He’s a weeaboo. He does weeaboo things and writes about weeabo stuffs. He’s also an aspiring writer(omg another one that can write!) and a chess master. Think of him as another indie guy, except he writes about japanese mangoes.  Also, our fourth MTG player in the crew! Woohoo!

So there you have it, watch them write about stuff nobody has even heard of! Comicgasm: Now indie as fuck!

PS. Ssee the Comicgasm crew(or maybe just me, we’re lazy fucks)  at Komikon 2010!

Ok. Hello again guys and gals. Here’s the third portion of the Lantern corps series of posts.  I’m sorry for the uber late post.  Apparently, work + writing = no progress whatsoever.  But now, I was able to finally find the time to finish this.  Anyways, the corps to be tackled here are the Orange lanterns and the Blue lanterns (yes Fiel, I know you’ve been waiting for this…).  So, without further ado, here we go.

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